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Posted at 4:00 am on August 20, 2017 by Kimberly Ross Well before November 8, 2016, many of us on the conservative side were critical of then-candidate Trump. Not much has changed. While some continue clinging to the #NeverTrump moniker, others such as myself have semi-retired the term.

As the Trump administration's review of national monument designations reaches a close, Interior Secretary MORE is facing more heat than ever from conservationists and outdoor groups. Opponents of the review say it could close off America's natural treasures to the public, and have poured more than $2 million into ads targeting Zinke, urging him not to rescind large national monuments established under the last three presidents. But industry officials and conservatives want Zinke to loosen the federal government's grip on huge swaths of acreage around the country, and

Lyft is partnering with the Southern Poverty Law Center to protect drivers from white supremacists. The driving service said in a message to drivers that they were partnering with the nonprofit to “provide educational resources for drivers.” “Lyft represents all people, including the 66 percent of drivers who identify as a minority — and every ride is an opportunity to bring people of different backgrounds together,” the company wrote.

Veterans Affairs Secretary MORE weighed in on the heated debate over whether to remove Confederate monuments across the country, saying Americans must be cognizant of each other's feeling amid simmering racial tensions.  “We can see from the events of this week that words matter, and you have to respect people’s opinions.

First daughter Ivanka Trump voiced her praise for counter protesters in Boston on Saturday, and called for national unity amid simmering racial tensions across the U.S. "It was beautiful to see thousands of people across the U.S.A come together today to peacefully denounce bigotry, racism & anti-Semitism.We must continue to come together, united as Americans!

The former PhD adviser of White House assistant Sebastian Gorka said he would not consider him to be an expert in terrorism, despite Gorka often discussing the administration's policies and stances on terrorism publicly.  "I would not call him an expert on terrorism," Stephen Sloan a retired University of Oklahoma professor who advised Gorka told CNN in an interview. Sloan added that, while Gorka is "knowledgeable" on a variety of subjects, "his level of expertise does not match the level where he stands in the W

For more than a decade, Spain seemed immune to the steady eruptions of Islamist violence that rocked other European countries where radicalized young men, often from poor immigrant backgrounds, carried out devastating bomb, gun or vehicular attacks. Spain’s security forces carved out a reputation as some of Europe’s most dogged counterterrorism operators, fighting an intense battle beneath a deceptively placid surface in a country whose long Mediterranean coastline, just acros

Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter. Editor Tim Herrera emails readers once a week with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Monday morning. Friends, it’s finally here: Tomorrow a total eclipse will crawl across the continental U.S. for the first time in nearly a century! Starting around 1:15 p.m. E.D.T., a 70-mile-wide shadow cast by the moon will make landfall in Oregon and finish its path in South Carolina at around 2:49 p.m. E.D.T.

More than 500 neo-Nazis took to the streets of Berlin on Saturday to observe the 30th anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, the onetime deputy to Hitler. Hess, once one of Hitler’s designated successors, was the last survivor of the 19 German officials convicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946. Hess was sentenced to life in prison, and committed suicide at the age of 93 in Spandau Prison in Berlin in 1987.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The bloody white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., has thrust race and history to the forefront of this year’s campaign for governor in Virginia, a tradition-bound state whose identity has always been rooted in a past that is as proud for some residents as it is painful for others. The gubernatorial race in this swing state was already set to be the next big test of the nation’s politics, its results inevitably to be read as a harbinger for the 2018 midterm elections and President Trump’s fate.